For McClatchy, Stuart Leavenworth profiles Bao Tong, former aide to Zhao Ziyang who was imprisoned after the 1989 military crackdown on protesters, and his son Bao Pu, who runs a publishing house in Hong Kong:
In early 1989, Bao Tong was the ultimate Beijing insider, serving as policy secretary to Zhao Ziyang, general secretary of the Communist Party. Zhao and Bao wanted the party to go easy on the Tiananmen protesters, but Deng Xiaoping, the nation’s de facto ruler, disagreed.